He was a member of the National Council and of the Georgian Constituent Assembly, of which he assumed the vice-presidency, then Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Georgia to Turkey.

[Note 2] He continued his studies in turn at primary school, at the Lyceum of Kutaisi, at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Odesa, in Ukraine.

After obtaining his higher education diploma, he found a job as a chemist in the administration of the city of Odesa and became politically committed against tsarism.

Simon Mdivani is the first foreign ambassador to recognize the Kemalist regime poised to overthrow the power of Sultan Mehmed VI and the Ottoman Empire.

[3] After the entry of the Red Army into Georgian territory, he emigrated to Constantinople; his brother Polycarpe Mdivani (1877-1937), known as Budu, represented Soviet Georgia in Turkey.